Keeping Up the Kardashian Branpb

Informationen zum Autor Amanda Scheiner McClain is assistant professor of Communications and Coordinator of Arts and Communications at Holy Family University in Philadelphia, PA. Klappentext The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world, connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. This book explores the Kardashians' brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of the television reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, social media utilization, and popular press presence. This three-pronged study of Kardashian media permits insights into contemporaneous American culture, namely societal norms, values, and ideologies, as well as structural and cultural aspects of cross-platform brand creation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Family and the BusinessChapter 2: Family, Gender, and TransgressionsChapter 3: Celebrity, Beauty, and SexualityChapter 4: Social Media Chapter 5: Journalistic Interpretation of the KardashiansChapter 6: Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Amanda Scheiner McClain, McClain Amanda Scheiner
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2015
• EAN: 9781498520614
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2061-4
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Media, Information & Communication Industries